Weekend Wrap Up - The Perfect Pace

Weekend Wrap Up - The Perfect Pace

We did a good job this weekend in pacing out our activities, so I'm feeling refreshed this morning, rather than exhausted, which is a nice change of pace. I don't expect it to last, but it is a nice feeling for now.

Friday - This was housecleaning morning, and in that I'm on the early schedule, with my wonderful husband-wife team arriving at 7AM, we got a likewise early start to our day by heading down to the harbor as soon as they arrived. We sat in our car for the first hour, while we sipped coffee and read our iPhones. Once sufficiently awake, we enjoyed a five mile walk. And really, I mean it - we very much enjoyed it. The air was cool, there was a nice breeze, and tons and tons of dogs were being walked by their owners. While I don't have any plans to get a dog in the foreseeable future, I do so enjoy seeing, petting, and crooning to any that might cross our path.

 

We returned home from our walk in time for lunch at the house, and then I read until it was time to head up to shower and get ready for our easy evening out. This was really the first warm-ish evening we've had so far this summer, and our summer tradition if we don't already have plans, is to take our dinner, including Happy Hour fixings, over to the harbor point to enjoy being outdoors while watching the boaters, paddlers, jet skiers, and assorted marine life. It was just a lovely, lovely evening, and as simple as our outing was, I think we both came home feeling really relaxed and yet refreshed.

And I slept like a log.

Saturday - Did a seven and 1/2 mile walk to and along the beach from the house, as I continue to add mileage in preparation for the upcoming hiking trip I'm doing with a girlfriend in just about four weeks. I felt much, much stronger at the conclusion of today's walk compared to just a week ago, so I'm very pleased about that. Our longest hike on the trip is eight miles, so I'm really not that stressed, but still, I want to go in feeling very strong and capable.

I did some light chores at home, plus a good amount of reading, then went into the kitchen to prepare an easy dinner of curry vegetable pot pie (still working through my Pop Pie Co stash), green beans and watermelon. We had tickets to an early evening performance of Bye Bye Birdie, which we then headed off to.

So, Bye Bye Birdie, sigh. The performers were a delight, and a lot of the music was familiar, which was nice in that I'd never seen either the play previously, nor the box office movie starring Ann-Margret. But I was a taken aback by the number of sexist and racist bits of dialogue that were in the play. I mean, sure, I get that it was an earlier time, but JFC, does that mean that all sensitivity was out the window then as well?  So definitely a one-and-done for us.

(I looked up the play's current reviews once we got home, and yep, critiques about the play's sexism and racism, along with ageism, abound.)

Sunday - On Repeat again - I was up bright and early to reserve our park concert spot by laying out blankets and chairs, plus extra blankets for two additional couples that would be joining us. 

Later, after attending our Sunday services, we had lunch back home and then walked to the concert, which we much enjoy in that its a relatively flat walk, and temps were in the 70's. We could tell by the number of cars parked along the road as we walked, that it was going to be a packed concert. Which, per the photo below it was!  

The dancing area, which is in front of the seating area,
was likewise packed!

I don't want to go overboard here, but the concert, two separate bands, was awesome. People danced, beach balls abounded, bubble machines blew, and yes, marijuana wafted in the air, but the energy was absolutely fantastic. All those concerts I missed attending in my youth because I married young, and then raised my family, I am making up for now. My fellow dancing and singing attendees are the attendees of my youth I never got to enjoy, just with gray hair. 😄

It was soooo great. Afterward, we went to a brewery for dinner and beer with our friends. We had so much fun together. All the efforts I put out when we first moved here eight years ago have paid off in spades. Our lives are rich with friends, and I am more thankful than I can express. 

Today, Monday - 

Woke up early to put dinner in the crock pot (Tarragon Chicken with Mushrooms), then I'm leaving shortly for a 10 mile walk/hike (bits of both terrain) in Newport Coast with the girlfriend I'm doing my Canada hike and kayak trip with. We'll be enjoying some Ruby's Shake Shack (if you know, you know 🙂 ) when we finish, and I'm looking forward to that as well. Afterward I'm sure I'll need a good nap!

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Inquiring minds want to know - how was your weekend???